Sport

The events surrounding the gold medal run by Ms Caster Semenya in August of this year have created a perfect storm of speculation around intersex. I know little about Ms Semenya save that she has, by winning a gold medal, brought the full force of sex binary enforcement and intersexphobia down on her apparently unsuitable… Read more →

Intersex person and sociology professor Cary Costello writes about the Caster Semenya case: … Here’s an irony for you. According to Western medical practice, the majority of infants discovered to be intersex are assigned female. This is done for surgical convenience (it being considered easier to remove an “inappropriate” penis than create an “appropriate” one),… Read more →

Sally Gross of Intersex South Africa writes: Caster Semenya’s situation strikes powerful chords in my personal experience. About 15 years ago, the determination that I am intersexed pulled my life comprehensively apart. It brought a brutal end to my career as an academic pedagogue and teacher of philosophy and it killed an almost completed doctoral… Read more →